Comey knows his days are short.....

[Cryptoad]

going out in flame of Glory........ most damage will be in down ballot elections....

[C_U_L8R]

1. Comey sure didn't do himself any favors

His political career is probably over.
Maybe Comey can get a job on Trump TV hawking Pocket Fishermen,
Vege-matics and Fried Pork Rinds to Alt-Idiots.

[DonRedwood]

12. I almost sent an alert on this message.

I loved my pocket fisherman as a kid and I will not have you disparage it.

It had a compartment for everything you needed AND folded up to fit into the glove box!

[C_U_L8R]

15. No offense intended:-)

More commentary on Trump TV's prospects and Comey's shortened career

[BumRushDaShow]

23. OMG I remember the commercials

[kentuck]

2. Good point!

There is no love lost between he and Hillary. I suppose he may have thought that he was gone anyway if Hillary won the election so why not do as much damage as he can while he still has a few days. His superior, the Attorney General, told him not to do it and he did it anyway. Pretty much a low life thing to do.

[Dr.Jones]

3. Maybe...

Unfortunately thus far he's the one thing that has ultimately stood between Clinton and the GOP witch hunt. Makes it tougher to give him his walking papers.

[Dr.Jones]

4. Also...

As someone stated on another thread, he agreed under oath that he would reopen the case if new evidence presented. There's no doubt as to the timing of the "new evidence", but his hand may very well have been forced here. It's also better to hash this out now than to wait until after because then the GOP could add collusion with the FBI to their list of possible witch hunts.

[wishstar]

5. He didn't have to announce 11 days before election that they were looking into more emails

His announcement could have been delayed just 11 more days, but he ignored advice of Justice Dept, Atty General to wait and took it upon himself to jump into election fray knowing that his vague statement would be misinterpreted and exaggerated and cause harm to one candidate who could not defend against innuendo this close to end of heated campaign.

Yes, he agreed under oath to reopen if new evidence presented, but ethics and precedent should have caused him to delay announcing the additional review until after election to avoid influencing election.

If he was criticized for waiting and covering up, he could have merely said Justice Dept advised him not to announce because of longstanding past practice and precedent of not reporting such reviews so close to an election.

Quite obvious he is a partisan Republican who donated to McCain and Romney and knows his days were numbered as FBI chief anyway so he decided to help out the Senate and Congressional GOP before Hillary becomes Pres.

[Dr.Jones]

8. Influencing the Election

By waiting until after the election the case could also have been made that he was trying to influence the election. He's had plenty of opportunity to put the screws to her if he wanted, and hasn't done it so far. I think that getting this out before the election what's best for Hillary. There's no coming in after the election crying about collusion now, because you know it would have happened. Hell it's probably what they wanted. They were probably lookint forward to hoping on this the day after the election. They just got the rug pulled out from underneath them.

[Jim Beard]

31. He was catching a lot of hell from underlings who could have leaked the story.

His contract was for 10 years and he has seven more years to go.

[wordpix]

7. unfortunately the average American just hears "new evidence" and "investigation" and

don't go farther than that about the nuanced details showing nothing

[Dr.Jones]

10. True

Hopefully they'll catch the headline that says she was exonerated....again.

[Skittles]

24. there hasn't BEEN any "new evidence"

it's BULLSHIT

[former9thward]

6. He has a ten year term.

Can't be fired by the president.

[Hugin]

9. Wrong.

"There are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI Director."

More here:

FBI Director: Appointment and Tenure.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41850.pdf

It would be politically bad for President Obama to "fire" Comey right now, but, he could certainly say he's lost confidence in the impartiality of Comey and ask that he step down.

[former9thward]

14. Wrong.

A president can only remove a director for "adequate cause". President Clinton dismissed Director William Sessions halfway through his term on charges that Sessions misused official resources—such as using FBI aircraft for personal trips. Nothing Comey has done would meet that standard. Congress can impeach but that won't happen.

[Hugin]

16. Sounds "statutory" to me... However, the Congressional Research Service says.

"There are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI Director."

Seems pretty cut and dried.

[Cryptoad]

19. He serves at the will of the Prez

"A president can only remove a director for "adequate cause""
violations of DOJ policies sounds like "adequate cause"
If HRC doesn't sack him... he will be down in Fox's office in the basement.

[former9thward]

20. He was being praised in July.

By the exact same people now attacking him. Interesting.

[kentuck]

21. Many gave him the benefit of the doubt.

They were wrong.

[Jim Beard]

32. I think he would have probably waited if it had not been for the underlings pressuring him.

If anyone, it should be those threatening to leak the story that should be punished.

[Cryptoad]

25. Not me,,,,

I thought he was a POS back in July just like I do today

[Volaris]

28. Fox's office in the basement hahahah

Not too sure how many caught that...it's getting to be a dated meme for sure.
But damned funny all the same, thanks for that

[Cryptoad]

29. u welcome,,,,

glad Im not he only old geezer hanging around....

[Volaris]

30. Yeah you're not. The girlfriend is younger than I am..

I'm not even sure she knows what it is heh...

[burrowowl]

33. There is cause

Come violated the Hatch Act.

[former9thward]

34. I doubt you have read the Hatch Act.

He did not violate it.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I'd love to flip the House...

then they could vote to impeach Comey and basically force him to resign.

[mwrguy]

26. Kick his ass to the curb

[Gothmog]

27. Comey has destroyed his reputation forever